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December 12, 2022
Shorties (Rivka Galchen 's Remembrance of Bernadette Mayer, Angel Olsen Interviewed, and more)
Rivka Galchen remembered Bernadette Mayer at the New Yorker.
Mayer, when she tends to go “high” and to use literary allusions, does so in her own distinctive way—which is never self-serious or aggressive. When a quotation by Nathaniel Hawthorne serves as an epigraph, it is about the arrival of cucumbers. And the mixture of the exalted and the domestic in Mayer’s work—pigs, explorers—feels unelected, like the ideal of observational objectivity.
SPIN interviewed singer-songwriter Angel Olsen.
80 year-end lists were added to the Largehearted Boy list of "best books of 2022" lists Saturday (bringing the total to 822).
eBooks on sale for $1.99 today:
The Complete Orsinia: Malafrena / Stories and Songs by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia E. Butler
Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler
NPR Music recommended the year's best experimental albums.
Rebecca Makkai has started a newsletter.
Pitchfork recommended 2022's best music merch.
The Boston Globe profiled cartoonist Kate Beaton.
The Creative Independent interviewed musician Patrick Holland.
The Conversation recommended graphic novels that confront the climate crisis.
Bandcamp Daily recommended the year's essential albums.
Roxane Gay recommended her favorite Los Angeles bookstores and more at the Los Angeles Times.
Creem examined the final days of David Berman.
The New York Times recommended the week's best paperbacks.
Pitchfork recommended the week's best new albums.
Tree Abraham recommended books about lives in motion at Electric Literature.
Vol. 1 Brooklyn interviewed poet Nicole McCarthy.
Lily Brooks-Dalton discussed her novel The Light Pirate at Shondaland.
Heather Radtke discussed her book, Butts: A Backstory, with BOMB.
If you’re going to write about bodies, and you’re not writing a memoir—as in, I’m not just going to write about my body—you have to listen. One of my responsibilities was to try to learn about how other people feel about their bodies.
Tor Nightfire recommended horror novels about artists.
The Atlantic features new writing by Alina Simone.
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